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FAO --- Banane --- Bananas --- Banane plantain --- Plantains --- Plante racine --- Root crops --- Pays en développement --- Developing countries --- Pool de gènes --- Gene pools --- Ressource génétique --- genetic resources --- Plante alimentaire --- Food crops --- -Root crops --- -Tuber crops --- -#ABIB:FAOdeposit --- Tuberous crops --- Root vegetables --- Banana --- Musa --- Musa sapientum --- Musaceae --- Tuber crops --- #ABIB:FAOdeposit

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Plante racine --- Root crops --- Tubercule --- Tubers --- Zone tropicale --- Tropical zones --- Plante de culture --- Crops --- Production --- Manihot esculenta --- Dioscorea --- Ipomoea batatas --- Araceae --- Plante amylacée --- Starch crops --- Colocasia esculenta --- Xanthosoma --- Alocasia --- Cyrtosperma chamissonis --- Amorphophallus --- -Tropical crops --- Tuber crops --- -#ABIB:FAOdeposit --- Tuberous crops --- Food crops --- Plantation crops --- Tropical agriculture --- Agriculture --- Field crops --- Tropical plants --- Root vegetables --- Tropical crops --- #ABIB:FAOdeposit

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Manioc --- Cassava --- Pomme de terre --- Potatoes --- Patate douce --- Sweet potatoes --- Igname --- Yams --- Pratique culturale --- Cultivation --- Possibilité de production --- production possibilities --- Politique de la production --- Production policies --- Rendement --- Yields --- Sécurité alimentaire --- food security --- world --- 635.073 --- 633.1 --- 633.2 --- 613.26 --- Root crops --- -Tuber crops --- -Tuberous crops --- Food crops --- Root vegetables --- Roots. Tubers. Bulbs --- Cereals. Grain crops --- Forage grasses. Meadow and pasture grasses --- Vegetarisch voedsel--(hygiëne en gezondheidszorg) --- Research --- -International cooperation --- Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research --- C.G.I.A.R. --- CGIAR --- GCIAI --- GCRAI --- Groupe consultatif de la recherche agricole internationale --- Groupe consultatif pour la recherche agronomique internationale --- Grupo Consultivo sobre Investigaciones Agrícolas Internacionales --- Grupo Consultivo sobre Investigaciones Agronómicas Internacionales --- World Bank. --- -Roots. Tubers. Bulbs --- 633.2 Forage grasses. Meadow and pasture grasses --- 633.1 Cereals. Grain crops --- 635.073 Roots. Tubers. Bulbs --- -633.2 Forage grasses. Meadow and pasture grasses --- Tuberous crops --- Tuber crops --- Research&delete& --- International cooperation --- Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research. --- Cassava.

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Root and Tuber Crops John Bradshaw Editor A number of root and tuber crops were first domesticated several thousand years ago, but none became important on a global scale until after the end of the 16th century. Today the potato is the world’s third most important food crop (314 million tonnes produced in 2008), after wheat and rice. Cassava (233) is the most important root and tuber crop in the tropics where it is a primary staple food in many of the poorest countries, and the sweet potato (110) is also a food staple in Asia, Africa and America. Sugar beet (228) provides about one quarter of the world’s sugar production from crops grown in temperate climates. Yams (52) are also important staple food crops in tropical and subtropical regions. Although Taro and Cocoyam are minor crops, they do provide a staple food for poor people in Africa, Asia and America. From the 1800s, fodder beet, swedes and turnips became important for feeding to livestock in temperate climates but they have now been replaced as major crops for animal feed by cereals and silage. The extent to which root and tuber crops are benefiting from modern breeding methods and new biotechnologies reflects both their own economic importance and that of their close relatives. All of this is covered together with past achievements, current breeding objectives and utilization of genetic resources. The book will be of value both to students of plant breeding and professional plant breeders, as well as to anyone interested in this fascinating group of root and tuber crops. The Handbook of Plant Breeding-Root and Tuber Crops is a volume devoted to 10 of the most important root and tuber crops and is divided into eight chapters: Potato (Solanum tuberosum), Cassava (Manihot esculenta), Sweet Potato (Ipomoea batatas), Yams (Dioscorea spp.), Taro (Colocasia esculenta) and Cocoyam (Xanthosoma sagittifolium), Sugar Beet (Beta vulgaris), Fodder Beet (Beta vulgaris), and Swedes (Brassica napus) and Turnip (Brassica rapa). Chapters have been written by experts on the crops with wide knowledge of their breeding. In order to provide uniformity with the other volumes in the Handbook of Plant Breeding, each chapter is divided into the following sections: Introduction, Origins and Domestication, Varietal Groups (where appropriate), Genetic Resources, Major Breeding Achievements, Current Goals of Breeding, Breeding Methods and Techniques, Integration of New Biotechnologies in Breeding Programs and Seed (Tuber/Commercial) Production. About the Editor: John Bradshaw is a Honorary Fellow of the Scottish Crop Research Institute, having spent the whole of his 34 year career there as a plant breeder and geneticist. Throughout his career he has been a member of the European Association for Research on Plant Breeding (EUCARPIA) and served as Chairperson of the Section Potatoes. He has travelled widely and written extensively on plant breeding, as well as serving on the editorial boards of a number of scientific journals.

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Manihot esculenta --- Ipomoea batatas --- Dioscorea --- Colocasia --- Pratique culturale --- Cultivation --- Variété --- Varieties --- Maladie des plantes --- Plant diseases --- Ravageur des plantes --- pests of plants --- Exigence des plantes --- plant requirements --- Physiologie après récolte --- Postharvest physiology --- Stockage --- storage --- Commercialisation --- Marketing --- 635.23 --- 635.22 --- 633.685 --- 633.495 --- 582.547.1 --- Cassava. Manioc. Manihot utilissima --- Sweet potato. Ipomoeas batata --- Yam. Dioscorea and Rajania spp. --- Taro. Colocasia esculenta --- Araceae. Arums. Cuckoo-pint --- tropical legumes --- cassava --- sweet potato --- Yams --- Araceae --- root crops --- tropical crops --- Root crops --- Tuber crops --- Tropical crops --- 582.547.1 Araceae. Arums. Cuckoo-pint --- 633.495 Taro. Colocasia esculenta --- 633.685 Yam. Dioscorea and Rajania spp. --- 635.22 Sweet potato. Ipomoeas batata --- 635.23 Cassava. Manioc. Manihot utilissima --- Tuberous crops --- Food crops --- Plantation crops --- Tropical agriculture --- Agriculture --- Crops --- Field crops --- Tropical plants --- Root vegetables --- Root crops - Tropics --- Tuber crops - Tropics --- Lutte